True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by… — Jon Johansen Copy Share Image
I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the… — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in,… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough Copy Share Image
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
